Popples!

If you grew up in the 1980s on a cartoon diet of Care Bears, Jem, Smurfs, My Little Pony, you may also be familiar with Popples which were tiny critters that could be snuggled into a pouch on that back. I never figured out what animal they were inspired by but just loved the bright colors that they came in and the fact that they always seemed to be ridiculously cheerful.

There's a shop near Ainz Tulpe in Harajuku, right next to the Accessorize store and the entrance to the Meiji Jingumae subway station, which sells assorted Care Bears and other vintage toys paraphernalia. Yesterday, I was delighted to discover that they had started carrying Popples merchandise! I got this pack of 100 stickers for the bargain price of only 210yen :-)